The new snow height of the tallest mountain peak on planet Earth, Mount Everest at 8848.86m, was jointly announced by Nepal and China. The height of Mount Everest set by the Indian survey was 8848 m in 1955. The new height announced on Tuesday was a rise of 0.86m.
In the light of debates that there may have been a change in it for various reasons, including the devastating earthquake of 2015, the Nepal government agreed to measure the exact height of the mountain.
In 1975, according to China's official Xinhua news agency, Chinese surveyors measured Mt. Everest as 8,848.13 metres above sea level. In 2005, a survey found the rock height of the summit to be 8,844.43 metres and its ice-snow layer to be 3.5 metres thick. According to a survey in May this year there was one metre of unknown material, possibly a mixture of ice and gravel, between the rock head and the snow cap.
According to the official news agency, Xinhua, Nepalese surveyors had reached the top of the mountain in May 2019 to measure it. A team of Chinese surveyors also climbed it in May, 2020.The Nepali government’s efforts to measure the height had come amid speculations from some scientists that the world’s tallest mountain has shrunk after Nepal’s devastating earthquake in 2015.
It was the first time Nepal itself measured its height.